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Real-life angry birds terrorize, take over town: People put-upon by their poultry (with video)

Backyard Chickens

Robin Dunkle is part of the growing trend of people who live in residential areas keeping chickens in their yards. Dunkle, of Franklin Twp., York County, has 16 chickens in an outdoor enclosure. She currently has five breeds in her backyard.
03/02/10
DAN GLEITER, The Patriot-News
(DAN GLEITER, The Patriot-News)

Don’t mess with these chickens. They don’t exactly back down. And the reason they crossed the road was to take over a small section of this Florida town.

From WFTX-TV, comes this news report of nearly a dozen brazen (not braised) chickens that have “taken ownership” of several square blocks in east Fort Myers. The human subjects are quoted on camera lamenting life under the tyranny of the bird.

You have to check it out.

The only question is will these chicken get their just deserts – and end up on the dinner table of these put-upon-by-poultry town’s people?

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